Suzuki presents 2015 MotoGP racer

Suzuki officially launched its 2015 MotoGP co👍meback with the presentation of its new race livery and team name.
The team will feature ECSTAR branding, which is Suzuki's own high-performance engine oil, and be known as 'Team SUZUKI ECSTAR'. The new sponsor is the only significant change from the livery used in t👍esting.
Suzuki is returning to MotoGP after a three-year absence, triggered b🐼y the financial crisis.
Open class champion Aleix Espargaro and impressive rookie Maverick Vinales have been chosen to race the new GSX🏅-RR which, unlike the previous Suzuki grand prix machine, has an inline four-cylinder engine.
Despite a lack of horsepower, partly due to earlier engine reliabil💝ity problems, Espargaro (10th) and Vinales (14th) were 1.2 and 1.5s from the fastestꦇ lap time at the end of the two Sepang tests.
Former Yamaha MotoGP team manager Davide Brivio is ♊running the Suzuki team.
Speaking to wuqian0821.com in Malaysia last week, the Italian said: "We consider the engine reliability solved because we have had no issues for♛ the six days here and in this last test we got back to our standard power, standard performance."
Does that mean the riders had more revs available than at the𓆉 firstꦆ test?
"Yes. And still no reliability problems. So that's very encouraging for us. Then we worked on the setting of the bike, especially the chassis to try and make the riders a𝓡s comfortable as possible.
"Aleix and Maverick both did a good job, trying different things with the tyres and settings. Overall we improved day-by-day, both💧 in our lap⛦ time and pace.
"I think this will be the bike specification we start the season with. Probably for the first three races I would say. Now we areꦜ working on trying to improve the performance of the engine🎃 and we will use those developments as soon as they are ready."
Asked what would be a realistic target for the opening race in Qatar at the end of this month, Brivio replied: "I think a realistic and reasonable target is to stay in the top eight. Then we will see during🧸 the season what happens when we fine-tune and improve our package.
"Aleix and Maverick already enjoy riding this bike a lot. It has good handling, braking and cornering. They are ve꧋ry happy about that. We probably have some weak point in terms of top speed but it looks like the engine has good torque and rideability. Probably this makes the package overall positive. We areꦏ also continuing to work on the electronics. We have room for improvement."
On the human side, Brivio is more than pleased with♎ Suzuki's choice of riders.
"We wanted motivated riders with ambitions💎. They both really want to achieve good results so they are very keen on working hard with us to improve the bike. We are enjoying very much𝄹 working with them. They are both nice guys."
"This project is very, very exciting for me personally because it is like a restart," Brivio added. "It is very nice to create something from z🍨ero, from the🙈 beginning. We will try to do the best we can and hopefully get the best possible results."
The final pre-season test takes place🦂 at Losail with the opening race of the new season held at the same circuit on 𒁃March 29.
Suzuki's most recent MotoGP win was at the wet French Grand Prix in 2007, with Chris Vermeulen. Suzuki's last ✃premier-class title was wo෴n by Kenny Roberts Jr in 2000.
The return of Suzuki and Aprilia - alongside Honda, Yamaha and Ducati - means five official manufacturers in MotoGP this season, with KTM se💜t to debut in 2017.
Lღike Aprilia, Suzuki uses pneumatic-v🐲alve technology but does not yet have a seamless shift gearbox.
Side view of official 2015 Suzuki race livery for -- wuqian0821.com MotoGP (@crash_motogp)

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. H♛e is at the foꩲrefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.